Fundraiser Sam Perkins, who raised thousands of pounds to fund research into motor neurone disease (MND), has died. The sportsman raised hundreds of thousands of pounds after being diagnosed with ...

Motor neurone disease is an uncommon condition that mainly affects people in their 60s and 70s. The family of a boy living with motor neurone disease have said it was a "massive shock" for him to ...

Scientists have developed a new kind of laser-based artificial neuron that mimics a biological nerve cell. This artificial neuron could boost high-speed computing and artificial intelligence (AI ...

Pain is an example of an important sensory neuron. When you feel pain from a hot pan or a sharp pin, you are sending sensory information via sensory neurons up to the brain. The flow of electrical ...

The doc mentions this disease you’ve vaguely heard of, don’t know much about. Motor Neurone Disease – MND, the doc calls it. Every time he mentions it, a look creeps across his face and he’s quick to ...

Neale Daniher, the newly named Australian of the Year, has battled MND since 2013. His fight to raise awareness and support research into this debilitating condition continues through his charity ...

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Neale Daniher played AFL for Essendon FC – where at age 20 he became the club’s youngest ever captain – and went on to coach Melbourne FC. Since his diagnosis, he has been a public face of ...

Pyramidal-neuron dendrites contain voltage-gated channels that can influence synaptic integration. These channels can also support backpropagating action potentials and dendritically initiated spikes.

The EXPErimental medicine Route To Success in ALS (EXPERTS-ALS) project aims to rapidly screen potential drugs for evidence that they can slow down damage to the nervous system occurring in people ...